Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Since last Wednesday the streets of Lomé have been pounding with anger, which radiates out of the opposition’s eastern stronghold of Bé. As many as 100 000 have showed the limits to their civic patience over the past week on the palm-lined boulevards of the capital.
Meanwhile, a fortnight ago at the Sheraton hotel some 4 500km away, diplomats from around the continent debated a key event to which Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbé, had agreed with Israeli PresidentBenjamin Netanyahu: the Africa-Israel Summit, planned to be held in Lomé in six weeks’ time.
At the Pretoria forum, organised by the Johannesburg-based Afro-Middle EastCentre, activists, academics and country representatives weighed solidarity with Palestine against the Israeli occupation with Israel’s bid to enter the new scramble for Africa.
The delegates thrashed out an African position regarding Lomé’s cosiness with Jerusalem, epitomised by the planned summit.
Gnassingbé finds himself in the eye of a long-gathering, powerful storm. In power for 12 years, he’s the beneficiary of a 50-year family rule following his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who was president for nearly 40 years.
Against the backdrop of the people’s cries to end the current president’s increasingly repressive control, Lomé this week conceded that it could consider a presidential limit with a constitutional amendment. But that doesn’t seem enough to quell the growing coalition wearing the red, orange and pink of a Free Togo movement. At the very least, it wants a two-term ceiling and a change to a two-round voting system.
Then, as its Parliament met amid these crises this week, Israel simultaneously announced that the Africa-Israel summit in October had been postponed. And it was that news that drew headlines around the world, more so than the days of protests against Gnassingbé’s rule.
From The Washington Post to The Argus, spanning Twitter and all social media, the dominant response was that Lomé had buckled under pressure from Arab countries, some African countries and other parts of the world to cancel the event.
Contributors to the Pretoria gathering, who had applauded South Africa’s decision to shun the summit because of the Israeli occupation, welcomed the announcement. And out of Gaza, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq called it “a victory for humanitarian values and its defenders”. Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz dubbed the cancellation a blow to Netanyahu.
Just three months ago, the Likud leader was saying Israel had “returned to Africa” as he travelled to Liberia for the Economic Community of West AfricanStates summit. That was part of a strategic Africa charm offensive, which included Netanyahu visiting Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia last year.
Through myriad Israeli technology, energy, security and water-related companies and public-private partnerships, Israel has been trying to win itself greater favour on the African continent. It was, therefore, careful to suggest this week that it was Togo’s internal political crisis that led to the decision by Gnassingbé, made in consultation with Netanyahu. This consultation happened despite the summit being due to parade the products of Israeli private, not government, enterprise under the slogan: “Building bridges towards greater shared prosperity”.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson EmmanuelNahshon said it was decided “to put off the … summit to a future, agreed-upon date”, and that “the president [Gnassingbé] stressed that the success of this important event requires significant and complicated preparations”.
But the stakes are high. Israel’s hard sell into Africa is, in part, to try to gain an observer seat at the African Union, which it believes might allow it an easier time on its policies against Palestine at the United Nations.
But the postponement of the Africa-Israel Summit was announced just as the Palestinian Authority prepares to submit 16 resolutions for vote during the UN General Assembly session on September 20, including on the illegal Gaza blockade and the Israeli settlements.
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1. Switzerland fans walking past
2. Switzerland fans waiting outside stadium ticket centre
3. SOUNDBITE (German): Switzerland fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "Surely we will get to the last eight. I think it will be 3-1 to Switzerland tonight"
Fan 2: "Swiss will be first in the group and the French will be third."
Fan 1: "I'm sorry they had bad preparations but I think they will play very badly today."
4. Switzerland fans walking away
5. Wide shot of Switzerland fans walking past Togo fans, they call out to each other, Togo fans walk past, pan up to World CupDortmund banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Togo fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "We are coming to play to win the game today, there's no doubt about it today."
(Q: "What do you think the score will be?")
"It will be 2-0 for Togo."
(Q:"So you think you'll get far in the competition?")
"Yeah sure, as the France did play yesterday a draw we believe that we are going to win today so that we won the match today. We want to pass the first round."
(Q:"How about the issue with the players and the bonuses?")
"The players they were right to ask what they wanted, this is their job but I believe that they are going to play today."
(Q:"What do you think Togo's appearance in the World Cup means to their people back in Togo?")
"Very, very, very important for people back in Togo. Sport for us is something very important."
Fan 2: "You cannot play for nothing, you need to get something for them."
7. Togo fans
STORYLINE:
Fans of Togo and Switzerland football teams arrived in the western German city of Dortmund on Monday ahead of a Group G encounter that will see Togo attempting to become the second African nation to win in the group phase of this year's football World Cup tournament.
Togo, one of the surprise African qualifiers, are fighting for survival after losing 2-1 to South Korea in its opening match.
Although the lowest ranked team at the World Cup, they have caused as many headlines as some previous champions.
The problems that have accompanied Togo reached a new climax with a threatened boycott over pay by players and an eleventh-hour settlement mediated by FIFA, world football's governing body.
FIFA were forced to intervene on Sunday and convince the Togolese players to travel to Dortmund.
Togo midfielder Thomas Dossevi said that FIFA had underwritten guarantees by the Togolese federation that the players would receive their bonuses ( for qualification to the tournament).
It was the FIFA guarantees, he said, that prompted mistrustful players to accept the deal.
FIFA were forced to act after receiving reports that the players did not want to board a plane from their training base in southern Germany to the match venue in Dortmund, a spokesman for the organisation said.
Swiss CoachOtto Pfister stormed out for three days and returned just hours before the South Korea match to protest the players' repeated absence from training and the federation's inability to settle the pay dispute.
A FIFA spokesman said Togo faced disqualification from the World Cup and further sanctions from FIFA's disciplinary committee if they boycotted the match, which had not happened since the tournament began in 1930.
Togo fans backed their players' stand over the pay dispute burt said they were confident their team would play against Switzerland.
The latest turbulence in the Togolese camp looked set to boost the chances of Switzerland, which reached the World Cup after a 12-year absence and held France to a 0-0 draw in its opening game.
The young squad is looking for a victory to ease its way into the second round.
Swiss fans waiting outside the stadium expressed confidence that their team would win and progress to the next stage of the tournament.
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Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday in the second phase of a campaign against the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family and demand the immediate resignation of PresidentFaure Gnassingbe.
Mobile access to the internet was blocked on Wednesday by authorities, as was the case in August and September during mass protests that drew tens of thousands of people.
Security forces cracked down on the previous nationwide demonstrations leaving several people dead.
Why are people protesting in Togo?
Protesters want to see a return to the 1992Constitution that allowed only two presidential terms. In addition, they want to have it applied retroactively so as to force out President Faure Gnassingbe.
Gnassingbe, in power since the death of his father in 2005, was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2015, in votes that the opposition denounced for fraud.
Why are these protests happening now?
A 14-party opposition coalition and civil society organisations have called the latest rounds of protests suspecting that President Gnassigbe, who is on his third term in office, will seek re-election in 2020.
In September, President Gnassingbe, in an attempt to appease opponents, tabled a draft bill to reform the constitution and reintroduce a two-term limit.
But opposition leaders are sceptical that this would apply retroactively, meaning the current president might stay until 2030. They have called for his immediate departure.
Where are the protests taking place?
Most protests are centred in the capital, Lome, and the northern city of Sokode.
Until 2017, most opposition against Gnassingbe was concentrated in or near the country's seaside capital.
The anti-government protests have now spread to the rest of the West African country of seven million people.
Has Togo seen protests before?
It is not the first time calls for Gnassingbe to resign have echoed in the streets.
The protests that followed Gnassingbe’s first election victory in 2005 triggered a violent security crackdown in which around 500 people were killed.
Demonstrations also erupted in 2011, 2012 and 2014, when people also asked for electoral reform.
In the latest round of violence that began in August, at least two people were killed, according to officials.
Opposition leaders disputed that number and said at least seven people died during the protests.
In September thousands of people again took to the streets to demand reform.
Security forces cleared barricades erected by demonstrators and fired tear gas at the crowds.
How has the government reacted to the latest protests?
Protests have largely been peaceful, but at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in September in a crackdown in the north of the country, a region previously seen as reliably pro-government.
The government has also limited internet access in the country, preventing demonstrators from organising on social media. Text messages have also been blocked.
Critics have called these moves by Gnassingbe’s government an attempt to supress the protests.
How has the international community reacted to the protests?
The UNSpecial Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on all parties "to preserve peace and security".
"I remain convinced that all parties want to move forward on the reforms ... in order to reach a consensus to respond to the legitimate expectations of the Togolese people," Chambas said in a statement last month.
Tel Aviv postponed indefinitely the Israel-Africa summit that was scheduled for late October in Togo due to rising unrest in the country.
"The decision was linked to the internal situation in Togo. The situation is seen to be unstable, and they [Togo's presidency] asked to postpone," EmmanuelNahshon, spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry told Al Jazeera last month.
Using the Twitter hashtag #TogoEnMarche (Togo on the move) people in and outside of Togo are voicing their discontent with Gnassingbe. The Togolese diaspora has called for marches in several cities around the world, including Montreal, Paris and Washington, DC.
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Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoing political crisis in Togo.
"Next door in Togo there has been a major political upheaval ongoing for many weeks now. You wouldn’t know this if you only watched or listened to our television and radio stations or read our newspapers. And they are our next door neighbours," Ms Ohene said at the opening of opening of the Second Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in Accra.
"The African story is, therefore, left largely to be told often by non-Africans and then we complain," she said.
The three-day conference being held under the theme: “African Studies and GlobalPolitics,” is being attended by over 260 participants from across the globe, with 142 of them coming from Africa.
ASAA was established in 2013 during the climax of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, to promote Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora.
The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective, what Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, referred to as studying our societies and experiences in an African-centred way.
Speaking on the topic "African Studies - Writing The DailyHistory", Ms Ohene said she had spent most of her life reporting from or about various parts of Africa.
"Take any newspaper or any FM station or television station and you are likely to get different versions of what you saw with your own two eyes or heard with your ears the previous day," she said.
She said throughout the years, when it comes to the reporting of the African continent, there had always been a feeling that it was portrayed unfairly by the animal called 'the Western media'.
Ms Ohene said: "I have always held the view, even during the time that I worked for the BBC, part of that Western media, that it does not really matter what the foreign media says about Africa. It is far, far more important what Africa says about itself."
She said "I am suggesting that the definitions that we have given ourselves make our participation on the global stage cumbersome".
"It is crowded on the global political stage and if you position yourself to be called to provide the interlude, you can hardly complain when you don’t feature on the main agenda."
Ms Ohene, who was a former Minister of State under former PresidentJohn Agyekum Kufuor, said there appears to be an unspoken agreement that the reporting and chronicling of our everyday affairs were not serious undertakings and can be left to entertainers and journalists.
She said the academics and intellectuals fancy themselves as dealing only with the “serious” business of the study and history of our affairs.
"You are experts and you know every angle of the history and facts about Africa. You are recognized as such by your colleagues and contemporaries around the world. I wonder why you don’t want to take an active interest in the daily writing and rewriting of our history," she said.
"It is, after all, today’s newspaper and radio headlines that you will be teaching us African Studies in 30 years," Ms Ohene said.
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Founding Vice President, ASAA, said the organisation was committed to providing a space where Africanists could formally collaborate to engage in the important work of reflecting on and proposing concrete responses to the global African condition.
“The work we do as professionals Africanists must impact our communities,” Prof Adomako Ampofo said.
Nana Kobina Nketsia V, The ParamountChief of the Essikado TraditionalArea, said African Studies had been ongoing since the existence of Africa.
GNA
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Togo

Togo (i/ˈtoʊɡoʊ/), officially the Togolese Republic (French:République Togolaise), is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capitalLomé is located. Togo covers 57,000 square kilometres (22,000sqmi), making it one of the smallest countries in Africa, with a population of approximately 7.5 million.

From the 11th to the 16th century, various tribes entered the region from all directions. From the 16th century to the 18th century, the coastal region was a major trading center for Europeans in search of slaves, earning Togo and the surrounding region the name "The Slave Coast". In 1884, Germany declared Togoland a protectorate. After World War I, rule over Togo was transferred to France. Togo gained its independence from France in 1960.

For Africanists, also known as communitarians, problems within Africa are thought to be caused because the real flesh-and-blood communities that comprise Africa are marginalized from public life as so many "tribes". Therefore, the solution is understood to be the need to defend culture and put Africa's age-old communities at the center of African politics. It is also argued that there is a need to "deexoticize" Africa and banalise it, rather than understand Africa as exceptionalized and exoticized.

Mathematical fallacy

In mathematics, certain kinds of mistaken proof are often exhibited, and sometimes collected, as illustrations of a concept of mathematical fallacy. There is a distinction between a simple mistake and a mathematical fallacy in a proof: a mistake in a proof leads to an invalid proof just in the same way, but in the best-known examples of mathematical fallacies, there is some concealment in the presentation of the proof. For example, the reason validity fails may be a division by zero that is hidden by algebraic notation. There is a striking quality of the mathematical fallacy: as typically presented, it leads not only to an absurd result, but does so in a crafty or clever way. Therefore, these fallacies, for pedagogic reasons, usually take the form of spurious proofs of obvious contradictions. Although the proofs are flawed, the errors, usually by design, are comparatively subtle, or designed to show that certain steps are conditional, and should not be applied in the cases that are the exceptions to the rules.

Kenya has a warm and humid tropical climate on its Indian Ocean coastline. The climate is cooler in the savannah grasslands around the capital city, Nairobi, and especially closer to Mount Kenya, which has snow permanently on its peaks. Further inland, in the Nyanza region, there is a hot and dry climate which becomes humid around Lake Victoria, the largest tropical fresh-water lake in the world. This gives way to temperate and forested hilly areas in the neighboring western region. The north-eastern regions along the border with Somalia and Ethiopia are arid and semi-arid areas with near-desert landscapes. Kenya is known for its safaris, diverse climate and geography, and expansive wildlife reserves and national parks such as the East and West Tsavo National Park, the Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Aberdares National Park. Kenya has several world heritage sites such as Lamu and numerous beaches, including in Diani, Bamburi and Kilifi, where international yachting competitions are held every year.

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Togo deals blow to Israel’s Africa quest

Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Since last Wednesday the streets of Lomé have been pounding with anger, which radiates out of the opposition’s eastern stronghold of Bé. As many as 100 000 have showed the limits to their civic patience over the past week on the palm-lined boulevards of the capital.
Meanwhile, a fortnight ago at the Sheraton hotel some 4 500km away, diplomats from around the continent debated a key event to which Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbé, had agreed with Israeli PresidentBenjamin Netanyahu: the Africa-Israel Summit, planned to be held in Lomé in six weeks’ time.
At the Pretoria forum, organised by the Johannesburg-based Afro-Middle EastCentre, activists, academics and country representatives weighed solidarity with Palestine against the Israeli occupation with Israel’s bid to enter the new scramble for Africa.
The delegates thrashed out an African position regarding Lomé’s cosiness with Jerusalem, epitomised by the planned summit.
Gnassingbé finds himself in the eye of a long-gathering, powerful storm. In power for 12 years, he’s the beneficiary of a 50-year family rule following his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who was president for nearly 40 years.
Against the backdrop of the people’s cries to end the current president’s increasingly repressive control, Lomé this week conceded that it could consider a presidential limit with a constitutional amendment. But that doesn’t seem enough to quell the growing coalition wearing the red, orange and pink of a Free Togo movement. At the very least, it wants a two-term ceiling and a change to a two-round voting system.
Then, as its Parliament met amid these crises this week, Israel simultaneously announced that the Africa-Israel summit in October had been postponed. And it was that news that drew headlines around the world, more so than the days of protests against Gnassingbé’s rule.
From The Washington Post to The Argus, spanning Twitter and all social media, the dominant response was that Lomé had buckled under pressure from Arab countries, some African countries and other parts of the world to cancel the event.
Contributors to the Pretoria gathering, who had applauded South Africa’s decision to shun the summit because of the Israeli occupation, welcomed the announcement. And out of Gaza, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq called it “a victory for humanitarian values and its defenders”. Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz dubbed the cancellation a blow to Netanyahu.
Just three months ago, the Likud leader was saying Israel had “returned to Africa” as he travelled to Liberia for the Economic Community of West AfricanStates summit. That was part of a strategic Africa charm offensive, which included Netanyahu visiting Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia last year.
Through myriad Israeli technology, energy, security and water-related companies and public-private partnerships, Israel has been trying to win itself greater favour on the African continent. It was, therefore, careful to suggest this week that it was Togo’s internal political crisis that led to the decision by Gnassingbé, made in consultation with Netanyahu. This consultation happened despite the summit being due to parade the products of Israeli private, not government, enterprise under the slogan: “Building bridges towards greater shared prosperity”.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson EmmanuelNahshon said it was decided “to put off the … summit to a future, agreed-upon date”, and that “the president [Gnassingbé] stressed that the success of this important event requires significant and complicated preparations”.
But the stakes are high. Israel’s hard sell into Africa is, in part, to try to gain an observer seat at the African Union, which it believes might allow it an easier time on its policies against Palestine at the United Nations.
But the postponement of the Africa-Israel Summit was announced just as the Palestinian Authority prepares to submit 16 resolutions for vote during the UN General Assembly session on September 20, including on the illegal Gaza blockade and the Israeli settlements.
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Fans gather ahead of Togo, Switzerland Group G match

1. Switzerland fans walking past
2. Switzerland fans waiting outside stadium ticket centre
3. SOUNDBITE (German): Switzerland fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "Surely we will get to the last eight. I think it will be 3-1 to Switzerland tonight"
Fan 2: "Swiss will be first in the group and the French will be third."
Fan 1: "I'm sorry they had bad preparations but I think they will play very badly today."
4. Switzerland fans walking away
5. Wide shot of Switzerland fans walking past Togo fans, they call out to each other, Togo fans walk past, pan up to World CupDortmund banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Togo fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "We are coming to play to win the game today, there's no doubt about it today."
(Q: "What do you think the score will be?")
"It will be 2-0 for Togo."
(Q:"So you think you'll get far in the competition?")
"Yeah sure, as the France did play yesterday a draw we believe that we are going to win today so that we won the match today. We want to pass the first round."
(Q:"How about the issue with the players and the bonuses?")
"The players they were right to ask what they wanted, this is their job but I believe that they are going to play today."
(Q:"What do you think Togo's appearance in the World Cup means to their people back in Togo?")
"Very, very, very important for people back in Togo. Sport for us is something very important."
Fan 2: "You cannot play for nothing, you need to get something for them."
7. Togo fans
STORYLINE:
Fans of Togo and Switzerland football teams arrived in the western German city of Dortmund on Monday ahead of a Group G encounter that will see Togo attempting to become the second African nation to win in the group phase of this year's football World Cup tournament.
Togo, one of the surprise African qualifiers, are fighting for survival after losing 2-1 to South Korea in its opening match.
Although the lowest ranked team at the World Cup, they have caused as many headlines as some previous champions.
The problems that have accompanied Togo reached a new climax with a threatened boycott over pay by players and an eleventh-hour settlement mediated by FIFA, world football's governing body.
FIFA were forced to intervene on Sunday and convince the Togolese players to travel to Dortmund.
Togo midfielder Thomas Dossevi said that FIFA had underwritten guarantees by the Togolese federation that the players would receive their bonuses ( for qualification to the tournament).
It was the FIFA guarantees, he said, that prompted mistrustful players to accept the deal.
FIFA were forced to act after receiving reports that the players did not want to board a plane from their training base in southern Germany to the match venue in Dortmund, a spokesman for the organisation said.
Swiss CoachOtto Pfister stormed out for three days and returned just hours before the South Korea match to protest the players' repeated absence from training and the federation's inability to settle the pay dispute.
A FIFA spokesman said Togo faced disqualification from the World Cup and further sanctions from FIFA's disciplinary committee if they boycotted the match, which had not happened since the tournament began in 1930.
Togo fans backed their players' stand over the pay dispute burt said they were confident their team would play against Switzerland.
The latest turbulence in the Togolese camp looked set to boost the chances of Switzerland, which reached the World Cup after a 12-year absence and held France to a 0-0 draw in its opening game.
The young squad is looking for a victory to ease its way into the second round.
Swiss fans waiting outside the stadium expressed confidence that their team would win and progress to the next stage of the tournament.
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Why are people protesting in Togo?

Why are people protesting in Togo?

Why are people protesting in Togo?

Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday in the second phase of a campaign against the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family and demand the immediate resignation of PresidentFaure Gnassingbe.
Mobile access to the internet was blocked on Wednesday by authorities, as was the case in August and September during mass protests that drew tens of thousands of people.
Security forces cracked down on the previous nationwide demonstrations leaving several people dead.
Why are people protesting in Togo?
Protesters want to see a return to the 1992Constitution that allowed only two presidential terms. In addition, they want to have it applied retroactively so as to force out President Faure Gnassingbe.
Gnassingbe, in power since the death of his father in 2005, was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2015, in votes that the opposition denounced for fraud.
Why are these protests happening now?
A 14-party opposition coalition and civil society organisations have called the latest rounds of protests suspecting that President Gnassigbe, who is on his third term in office, will seek re-election in 2020.
In September, President Gnassingbe, in an attempt to appease opponents, tabled a draft bill to reform the constitution and reintroduce a two-term limit.
But opposition leaders are sceptical that this would apply retroactively, meaning the current president might stay until 2030. They have called for his immediate departure.
Where are the protests taking place?
Most protests are centred in the capital, Lome, and the northern city of Sokode.
Until 2017, most opposition against Gnassingbe was concentrated in or near the country's seaside capital.
The anti-government protests have now spread to the rest of the West African country of seven million people.
Has Togo seen protests before?
It is not the first time calls for Gnassingbe to resign have echoed in the streets.
The protests that followed Gnassingbe’s first election victory in 2005 triggered a violent security crackdown in which around 500 people were killed.
Demonstrations also erupted in 2011, 2012 and 2014, when people also asked for electoral reform.
In the latest round of violence that began in August, at least two people were killed, according to officials.
Opposition leaders disputed that number and said at least seven people died during the protests.
In September thousands of people again took to the streets to demand reform.
Security forces cleared barricades erected by demonstrators and fired tear gas at the crowds.
How has the government reacted to the latest protests?
Protests have largely been peaceful, but at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in September in a crackdown in the north of the country, a region previously seen as reliably pro-government.
The government has also limited internet access in the country, preventing demonstrators from organising on social media. Text messages have also been blocked.
Critics have called these moves by Gnassingbe’s government an attempt to supress the protests.
How has the international community reacted to the protests?
The UNSpecial Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on all parties "to preserve peace and security".
"I remain convinced that all parties want to move forward on the reforms ... in order to reach a consensus to respond to the legitimate expectations of the Togolese people," Chambas said in a statement last month.
Tel Aviv postponed indefinitely the Israel-Africa summit that was scheduled for late October in Togo due to rising unrest in the country.
"The decision was linked to the internal situation in Togo. The situation is seen to be unstable, and they [Togo's presidency] asked to postpone," EmmanuelNahshon, spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry told Al Jazeera last month.
Using the Twitter hashtag #TogoEnMarche (Togo on the move) people in and outside of Togo are voicing their discontent with Gnassingbe. The Togolese diaspora has called for marches in several cities around the world, including Montreal, Paris and Washington, DC.
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Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoing political crisis in Togo.
"Next door in Togo there has been a major political upheaval ongoing for many weeks now. You wouldn’t know this if you only watched or listened to our television and radio stations or read our newspapers. And they are our next door neighbours," Ms Ohene said at the opening of opening of the Second Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in Accra.
"The African story is, therefore, left largely to be told often by non-Africans and then we complain," she said.
The three-day conference being held under the theme: “African Studies and GlobalPolitics,” is being attended by over 260 participants from across the globe, with 142 of them coming from Africa.
ASAA was established in 2013 during the climax of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, to promote Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora.
The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective, what Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, referred to as studying our societies and experiences in an African-centred way.
Speaking on the topic "African Studies - Writing The DailyHistory", Ms Ohene said she had spent most of her life reporting from or about various parts of Africa.
"Take any newspaper or any FM station or television station and you are likely to get different versions of what you saw with your own two eyes or heard with your ears the previous day," she said.
She said throughout the years, when it comes to the reporting of the African continent, there had always been a feeling that it was portrayed unfairly by the animal called 'the Western media'.
Ms Ohene said: "I have always held the view, even during the time that I worked for the BBC, part of that Western media, that it does not really matter what the foreign media says about Africa. It is far, far more important what Africa says about itself."
She said "I am suggesting that the definitions that we have given ourselves make our participation on the global stage cumbersome".
"It is crowded on the global political stage and if you position yourself to be called to provide the interlude, you can hardly complain when you don’t feature on the main agenda."
Ms Ohene, who was a former Minister of State under former PresidentJohn Agyekum Kufuor, said there appears to be an unspoken agreement that the reporting and chronicling of our everyday affairs were not serious undertakings and can be left to entertainers and journalists.
She said the academics and intellectuals fancy themselves as dealing only with the “serious” business of the study and history of our affairs.
"You are experts and you know every angle of the history and facts about Africa. You are recognized as such by your colleagues and contemporaries around the world. I wonder why you don’t want to take an active interest in the daily writing and rewriting of our history," she said.
"It is, after all, today’s newspaper and radio headlines that you will be teaching us African Studies in 30 years," Ms Ohene said.
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Founding Vice President, ASAA, said the organisation was committed to providing a space where Africanists could formally collaborate to engage in the important work of reflecting on and proposing concrete responses to the global African condition.
“The work we do as professionals Africanists must impact our communities,” Prof Adomako Ampofo said.
Nana Kobina Nketsia V, The ParamountChief of the Essikado TraditionalArea, said African Studies had been ongoing since the existence of Africa.
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Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Since last Wednesday the streets of Lomé have been pounding with anger, which radiates out of the opposition’s eastern stronghold of Bé. As many as 100 000 have showed the limits to their civic patience over the past week on the palm-lined boulevards of the capital.
Meanwhile, a fortnight ago at the Sheraton hotel some 4 500km away, diplomats from around the continent debated a key event to which Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbé, had agreed with Israeli PresidentBenjamin Netanyahu: the Africa-Israel Summit, planned to be held in Lomé in six weeks’ time.
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Fans gather ahead of Togo, Switzerland Group G match

1. Switzerland fans walking past
2. Switzerland fans waiting outside stadium ticket centre
3. SOUNDBITE (German): Switzerland fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "Surely we will get to the last eight. I think it will be 3-1 to Switzerland tonight"
Fan 2: "Swiss will be first in the group and the French will be third."
Fan 1: "I'm sorry they had bad preparations but I think they will play very badly today."
4. Switzerland fans walking away
5. Wide shot of Switzerland fans walking past Togo fans, they call out to each other, Togo fans walk past, pan up to World CupDortmund banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Togo fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "We are coming to play to win the game today, there's no doubt about it today."
(Q: "What do you think the score will be?")
"It will be 2-0 for Togo."
(Q:"So yo...

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Why are people protesting in Togo?

Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday in the second phase of a campaign against the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family and demand the immediate resignation of PresidentFaure Gnassingbe.
Mobile access to the internet was blocked on Wednesday by authorities, as was the case in August and September during mass protests that drew tens of thousands of people.
Security forces cracked down on the previous nationwide demonstrations leaving several people dead.
Why are people protesting in Togo?
Protesters want to see a return to the 1992Constitution that allowed only two presidential terms. In addition, they want to have it applied retroactively so as to force...

Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoing political crisis in Togo.
"Next door in Togo there has been a major political upheaval ongoing for many weeks now. You wouldn’t know this if you only watched or listened to our television and radio stations or read our newspapers. And they are our next door neighbours," Ms Ohene said at the opening of opening of the Second Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in Accra.
"The African story is, therefore, left largely to be told often by non-Africans and then we complain," she said.
The three-day conference being held under the theme: “African Studies and GlobalPolitics,” is being attended...

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Togo deals blow to Israel’s Africa quest

Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Si...

Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Since last Wednesday the streets of Lomé have been pounding with anger, which radiates out of the opposition’s eastern stronghold of Bé. As many as 100 000 have showed the limits to their civic patience over the past week on the palm-lined boulevards of the capital.
Meanwhile, a fortnight ago at the Sheraton hotel some 4 500km away, diplomats from around the continent debated a key event to which Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbé, had agreed with Israeli PresidentBenjamin Netanyahu: the Africa-Israel Summit, planned to be held in Lomé in six weeks’ time.
At the Pretoria forum, organised by the Johannesburg-based Afro-Middle EastCentre, activists, academics and country representatives weighed solidarity with Palestine against the Israeli occupation with Israel’s bid to enter the new scramble for Africa.
The delegates thrashed out an African position regarding Lomé’s cosiness with Jerusalem, epitomised by the planned summit.
Gnassingbé finds himself in the eye of a long-gathering, powerful storm. In power for 12 years, he’s the beneficiary of a 50-year family rule following his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who was president for nearly 40 years.
Against the backdrop of the people’s cries to end the current president’s increasingly repressive control, Lomé this week conceded that it could consider a presidential limit with a constitutional amendment. But that doesn’t seem enough to quell the growing coalition wearing the red, orange and pink of a Free Togo movement. At the very least, it wants a two-term ceiling and a change to a two-round voting system.
Then, as its Parliament met amid these crises this week, Israel simultaneously announced that the Africa-Israel summit in October had been postponed. And it was that news that drew headlines around the world, more so than the days of protests against Gnassingbé’s rule.
From The Washington Post to The Argus, spanning Twitter and all social media, the dominant response was that Lomé had buckled under pressure from Arab countries, some African countries and other parts of the world to cancel the event.
Contributors to the Pretoria gathering, who had applauded South Africa’s decision to shun the summit because of the Israeli occupation, welcomed the announcement. And out of Gaza, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq called it “a victory for humanitarian values and its defenders”. Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz dubbed the cancellation a blow to Netanyahu.
Just three months ago, the Likud leader was saying Israel had “returned to Africa” as he travelled to Liberia for the Economic Community of West AfricanStates summit. That was part of a strategic Africa charm offensive, which included Netanyahu visiting Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia last year.
Through myriad Israeli technology, energy, security and water-related companies and public-private partnerships, Israel has been trying to win itself greater favour on the African continent. It was, therefore, careful to suggest this week that it was Togo’s internal political crisis that led to the decision by Gnassingbé, made in consultation with Netanyahu. This consultation happened despite the summit being due to parade the products of Israeli private, not government, enterprise under the slogan: “Building bridges towards greater shared prosperity”.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson EmmanuelNahshon said it was decided “to put off the … summit to a future, agreed-upon date”, and that “the president [Gnassingbé] stressed that the success of this important event requires significant and complicated preparations”.
But the stakes are high. Israel’s hard sell into Africa is, in part, to try to gain an observer seat at the African Union, which it believes might allow it an easier time on its policies against Palestine at the United Nations.
But the postponement of the Africa-Israel Summit was announced just as the Palestinian Authority prepares to submit 16 resolutions for vote during the UN General Assembly session on September 20, including on the illegal Gaza blockade and the Israeli settlements.
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Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Since last Wednesday the streets of Lomé have been pounding with anger, which radiates out of the opposition’s eastern stronghold of Bé. As many as 100 000 have showed the limits to their civic patience over the past week on the palm-lined boulevards of the capital.
Meanwhile, a fortnight ago at the Sheraton hotel some 4 500km away, diplomats from around the continent debated a key event to which Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbé, had agreed with Israeli PresidentBenjamin Netanyahu: the Africa-Israel Summit, planned to be held in Lomé in six weeks’ time.
At the Pretoria forum, organised by the Johannesburg-based Afro-Middle EastCentre, activists, academics and country representatives weighed solidarity with Palestine against the Israeli occupation with Israel’s bid to enter the new scramble for Africa.
The delegates thrashed out an African position regarding Lomé’s cosiness with Jerusalem, epitomised by the planned summit.
Gnassingbé finds himself in the eye of a long-gathering, powerful storm. In power for 12 years, he’s the beneficiary of a 50-year family rule following his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who was president for nearly 40 years.
Against the backdrop of the people’s cries to end the current president’s increasingly repressive control, Lomé this week conceded that it could consider a presidential limit with a constitutional amendment. But that doesn’t seem enough to quell the growing coalition wearing the red, orange and pink of a Free Togo movement. At the very least, it wants a two-term ceiling and a change to a two-round voting system.
Then, as its Parliament met amid these crises this week, Israel simultaneously announced that the Africa-Israel summit in October had been postponed. And it was that news that drew headlines around the world, more so than the days of protests against Gnassingbé’s rule.
From The Washington Post to The Argus, spanning Twitter and all social media, the dominant response was that Lomé had buckled under pressure from Arab countries, some African countries and other parts of the world to cancel the event.
Contributors to the Pretoria gathering, who had applauded South Africa’s decision to shun the summit because of the Israeli occupation, welcomed the announcement. And out of Gaza, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq called it “a victory for humanitarian values and its defenders”. Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz dubbed the cancellation a blow to Netanyahu.
Just three months ago, the Likud leader was saying Israel had “returned to Africa” as he travelled to Liberia for the Economic Community of West AfricanStates summit. That was part of a strategic Africa charm offensive, which included Netanyahu visiting Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia last year.
Through myriad Israeli technology, energy, security and water-related companies and public-private partnerships, Israel has been trying to win itself greater favour on the African continent. It was, therefore, careful to suggest this week that it was Togo’s internal political crisis that led to the decision by Gnassingbé, made in consultation with Netanyahu. This consultation happened despite the summit being due to parade the products of Israeli private, not government, enterprise under the slogan: “Building bridges towards greater shared prosperity”.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson EmmanuelNahshon said it was decided “to put off the … summit to a future, agreed-upon date”, and that “the president [Gnassingbé] stressed that the success of this important event requires significant and complicated preparations”.
But the stakes are high. Israel’s hard sell into Africa is, in part, to try to gain an observer seat at the African Union, which it believes might allow it an easier time on its policies against Palestine at the United Nations.
But the postponement of the Africa-Israel Summit was announced just as the Palestinian Authority prepares to submit 16 resolutions for vote during the UN General Assembly session on September 20, including on the illegal Gaza blockade and the Israeli settlements.
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1. Switzerland fans walking past
2. Switzerland fans waiting outside stadium ticket centre
3. SOUNDBITE (German): Switzerland fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "Surely we will get to the last eight. I think it will be 3-1 to Switzerland tonight"
Fan 2: "Swiss will be first in the group and the French will be third."
Fan 1: "I'm sorry they had bad preparations but I think they will play very badly today."
4. Switzerland fans walking away
5. Wide shot of Switzerland fans walking past Togo fans, they call out to each other, Togo fans walk past, pan up to World CupDortmund banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Togo fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "We are coming to play to win the game today, there's no doubt about it today."
(Q: "What do you think the score will be?")
"It will be 2-0 for Togo."
(Q:"So you think you'll get far in the competition?")
"Yeah sure, as the France did play yesterday a draw we believe that we are going to win today so that we won the match today. We want to pass the first round."
(Q:"How about the issue with the players and the bonuses?")
"The players they were right to ask what they wanted, this is their job but I believe that they are going to play today."
(Q:"What do you think Togo's appearance in the World Cup means to their people back in Togo?")
"Very, very, very important for people back in Togo. Sport for us is something very important."
Fan 2: "You cannot play for nothing, you need to get something for them."
7. Togo fans
STORYLINE:
Fans of Togo and Switzerland football teams arrived in the western German city of Dortmund on Monday ahead of a Group G encounter that will see Togo attempting to become the second African nation to win in the group phase of this year's football World Cup tournament.
Togo, one of the surprise African qualifiers, are fighting for survival after losing 2-1 to South Korea in its opening match.
Although the lowest ranked team at the World Cup, they have caused as many headlines as some previous champions.
The problems that have accompanied Togo reached a new climax with a threatened boycott over pay by players and an eleventh-hour settlement mediated by FIFA, world football's governing body.
FIFA were forced to intervene on Sunday and convince the Togolese players to travel to Dortmund.
Togo midfielder Thomas Dossevi said that FIFA had underwritten guarantees by the Togolese federation that the players would receive their bonuses ( for qualification to the tournament).
It was the FIFA guarantees, he said, that prompted mistrustful players to accept the deal.
FIFA were forced to act after receiving reports that the players did not want to board a plane from their training base in southern Germany to the match venue in Dortmund, a spokesman for the organisation said.
Swiss CoachOtto Pfister stormed out for three days and returned just hours before the South Korea match to protest the players' repeated absence from training and the federation's inability to settle the pay dispute.
A FIFA spokesman said Togo faced disqualification from the World Cup and further sanctions from FIFA's disciplinary committee if they boycotted the match, which had not happened since the tournament began in 1930.
Togo fans backed their players' stand over the pay dispute burt said they were confident their team would play against Switzerland.
The latest turbulence in the Togolese camp looked set to boost the chances of Switzerland, which reached the World Cup after a 12-year absence and held France to a 0-0 draw in its opening game.
The young squad is looking for a victory to ease its way into the second round.
Swiss fans waiting outside the stadium expressed confidence that their team would win and progress to the next stage of the tournament.
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1. Switzerland fans walking past
2. Switzerland fans waiting outside stadium ticket centre
3. SOUNDBITE (German): Switzerland fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "Surely we will get to the last eight. I think it will be 3-1 to Switzerland tonight"
Fan 2: "Swiss will be first in the group and the French will be third."
Fan 1: "I'm sorry they had bad preparations but I think they will play very badly today."
4. Switzerland fans walking away
5. Wide shot of Switzerland fans walking past Togo fans, they call out to each other, Togo fans walk past, pan up to World CupDortmund banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Togo fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "We are coming to play to win the game today, there's no doubt about it today."
(Q: "What do you think the score will be?")
"It will be 2-0 for Togo."
(Q:"So you think you'll get far in the competition?")
"Yeah sure, as the France did play yesterday a draw we believe that we are going to win today so that we won the match today. We want to pass the first round."
(Q:"How about the issue with the players and the bonuses?")
"The players they were right to ask what they wanted, this is their job but I believe that they are going to play today."
(Q:"What do you think Togo's appearance in the World Cup means to their people back in Togo?")
"Very, very, very important for people back in Togo. Sport for us is something very important."
Fan 2: "You cannot play for nothing, you need to get something for them."
7. Togo fans
STORYLINE:
Fans of Togo and Switzerland football teams arrived in the western German city of Dortmund on Monday ahead of a Group G encounter that will see Togo attempting to become the second African nation to win in the group phase of this year's football World Cup tournament.
Togo, one of the surprise African qualifiers, are fighting for survival after losing 2-1 to South Korea in its opening match.
Although the lowest ranked team at the World Cup, they have caused as many headlines as some previous champions.
The problems that have accompanied Togo reached a new climax with a threatened boycott over pay by players and an eleventh-hour settlement mediated by FIFA, world football's governing body.
FIFA were forced to intervene on Sunday and convince the Togolese players to travel to Dortmund.
Togo midfielder Thomas Dossevi said that FIFA had underwritten guarantees by the Togolese federation that the players would receive their bonuses ( for qualification to the tournament).
It was the FIFA guarantees, he said, that prompted mistrustful players to accept the deal.
FIFA were forced to act after receiving reports that the players did not want to board a plane from their training base in southern Germany to the match venue in Dortmund, a spokesman for the organisation said.
Swiss CoachOtto Pfister stormed out for three days and returned just hours before the South Korea match to protest the players' repeated absence from training and the federation's inability to settle the pay dispute.
A FIFA spokesman said Togo faced disqualification from the World Cup and further sanctions from FIFA's disciplinary committee if they boycotted the match, which had not happened since the tournament began in 1930.
Togo fans backed their players' stand over the pay dispute burt said they were confident their team would play against Switzerland.
The latest turbulence in the Togolese camp looked set to boost the chances of Switzerland, which reached the World Cup after a 12-year absence and held France to a 0-0 draw in its opening game.
The young squad is looking for a victory to ease its way into the second round.
Swiss fans waiting outside the stadium expressed confidence that their team would win and progress to the next stage of the tournament.
Keyword-world cup 2006
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Why are people protesting in Togo?

Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday...

Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday in the second phase of a campaign against the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family and demand the immediate resignation of PresidentFaure Gnassingbe.
Mobile access to the internet was blocked on Wednesday by authorities, as was the case in August and September during mass protests that drew tens of thousands of people.
Security forces cracked down on the previous nationwide demonstrations leaving several people dead.
Why are people protesting in Togo?
Protesters want to see a return to the 1992Constitution that allowed only two presidential terms. In addition, they want to have it applied retroactively so as to force out President Faure Gnassingbe.
Gnassingbe, in power since the death of his father in 2005, was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2015, in votes that the opposition denounced for fraud.
Why are these protests happening now?
A 14-party opposition coalition and civil society organisations have called the latest rounds of protests suspecting that President Gnassigbe, who is on his third term in office, will seek re-election in 2020.
In September, President Gnassingbe, in an attempt to appease opponents, tabled a draft bill to reform the constitution and reintroduce a two-term limit.
But opposition leaders are sceptical that this would apply retroactively, meaning the current president might stay until 2030. They have called for his immediate departure.
Where are the protests taking place?
Most protests are centred in the capital, Lome, and the northern city of Sokode.
Until 2017, most opposition against Gnassingbe was concentrated in or near the country's seaside capital.
The anti-government protests have now spread to the rest of the West African country of seven million people.
Has Togo seen protests before?
It is not the first time calls for Gnassingbe to resign have echoed in the streets.
The protests that followed Gnassingbe’s first election victory in 2005 triggered a violent security crackdown in which around 500 people were killed.
Demonstrations also erupted in 2011, 2012 and 2014, when people also asked for electoral reform.
In the latest round of violence that began in August, at least two people were killed, according to officials.
Opposition leaders disputed that number and said at least seven people died during the protests.
In September thousands of people again took to the streets to demand reform.
Security forces cleared barricades erected by demonstrators and fired tear gas at the crowds.
How has the government reacted to the latest protests?
Protests have largely been peaceful, but at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in September in a crackdown in the north of the country, a region previously seen as reliably pro-government.
The government has also limited internet access in the country, preventing demonstrators from organising on social media. Text messages have also been blocked.
Critics have called these moves by Gnassingbe’s government an attempt to supress the protests.
How has the international community reacted to the protests?
The UNSpecial Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on all parties "to preserve peace and security".
"I remain convinced that all parties want to move forward on the reforms ... in order to reach a consensus to respond to the legitimate expectations of the Togolese people," Chambas said in a statement last month.
Tel Aviv postponed indefinitely the Israel-Africa summit that was scheduled for late October in Togo due to rising unrest in the country.
"The decision was linked to the internal situation in Togo. The situation is seen to be unstable, and they [Togo's presidency] asked to postpone," EmmanuelNahshon, spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry told Al Jazeera last month.
Using the Twitter hashtag #TogoEnMarche (Togo on the move) people in and outside of Togo are voicing their discontent with Gnassingbe. The Togolese diaspora has called for marches in several cities around the world, including Montreal, Paris and Washington, DC.
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Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday in the second phase of a campaign against the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family and demand the immediate resignation of PresidentFaure Gnassingbe.
Mobile access to the internet was blocked on Wednesday by authorities, as was the case in August and September during mass protests that drew tens of thousands of people.
Security forces cracked down on the previous nationwide demonstrations leaving several people dead.
Why are people protesting in Togo?
Protesters want to see a return to the 1992Constitution that allowed only two presidential terms. In addition, they want to have it applied retroactively so as to force out President Faure Gnassingbe.
Gnassingbe, in power since the death of his father in 2005, was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2015, in votes that the opposition denounced for fraud.
Why are these protests happening now?
A 14-party opposition coalition and civil society organisations have called the latest rounds of protests suspecting that President Gnassigbe, who is on his third term in office, will seek re-election in 2020.
In September, President Gnassingbe, in an attempt to appease opponents, tabled a draft bill to reform the constitution and reintroduce a two-term limit.
But opposition leaders are sceptical that this would apply retroactively, meaning the current president might stay until 2030. They have called for his immediate departure.
Where are the protests taking place?
Most protests are centred in the capital, Lome, and the northern city of Sokode.
Until 2017, most opposition against Gnassingbe was concentrated in or near the country's seaside capital.
The anti-government protests have now spread to the rest of the West African country of seven million people.
Has Togo seen protests before?
It is not the first time calls for Gnassingbe to resign have echoed in the streets.
The protests that followed Gnassingbe’s first election victory in 2005 triggered a violent security crackdown in which around 500 people were killed.
Demonstrations also erupted in 2011, 2012 and 2014, when people also asked for electoral reform.
In the latest round of violence that began in August, at least two people were killed, according to officials.
Opposition leaders disputed that number and said at least seven people died during the protests.
In September thousands of people again took to the streets to demand reform.
Security forces cleared barricades erected by demonstrators and fired tear gas at the crowds.
How has the government reacted to the latest protests?
Protests have largely been peaceful, but at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in September in a crackdown in the north of the country, a region previously seen as reliably pro-government.
The government has also limited internet access in the country, preventing demonstrators from organising on social media. Text messages have also been blocked.
Critics have called these moves by Gnassingbe’s government an attempt to supress the protests.
How has the international community reacted to the protests?
The UNSpecial Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on all parties "to preserve peace and security".
"I remain convinced that all parties want to move forward on the reforms ... in order to reach a consensus to respond to the legitimate expectations of the Togolese people," Chambas said in a statement last month.
Tel Aviv postponed indefinitely the Israel-Africa summit that was scheduled for late October in Togo due to rising unrest in the country.
"The decision was linked to the internal situation in Togo. The situation is seen to be unstable, and they [Togo's presidency] asked to postpone," EmmanuelNahshon, spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry told Al Jazeera last month.
Using the Twitter hashtag #TogoEnMarche (Togo on the move) people in and outside of Togo are voicing their discontent with Gnassingbe. The Togolese diaspora has called for marches in several cities around the world, including Montreal, Paris and Washington, DC.
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Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoin...

Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoing political crisis in Togo.
"Next door in Togo there has been a major political upheaval ongoing for many weeks now. You wouldn’t know this if you only watched or listened to our television and radio stations or read our newspapers. And they are our next door neighbours," Ms Ohene said at the opening of opening of the Second Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in Accra.
"The African story is, therefore, left largely to be told often by non-Africans and then we complain," she said.
The three-day conference being held under the theme: “African Studies and GlobalPolitics,” is being attended by over 260 participants from across the globe, with 142 of them coming from Africa.
ASAA was established in 2013 during the climax of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, to promote Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora.
The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective, what Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, referred to as studying our societies and experiences in an African-centred way.
Speaking on the topic "African Studies - Writing The DailyHistory", Ms Ohene said she had spent most of her life reporting from or about various parts of Africa.
"Take any newspaper or any FM station or television station and you are likely to get different versions of what you saw with your own two eyes or heard with your ears the previous day," she said.
She said throughout the years, when it comes to the reporting of the African continent, there had always been a feeling that it was portrayed unfairly by the animal called 'the Western media'.
Ms Ohene said: "I have always held the view, even during the time that I worked for the BBC, part of that Western media, that it does not really matter what the foreign media says about Africa. It is far, far more important what Africa says about itself."
She said "I am suggesting that the definitions that we have given ourselves make our participation on the global stage cumbersome".
"It is crowded on the global political stage and if you position yourself to be called to provide the interlude, you can hardly complain when you don’t feature on the main agenda."
Ms Ohene, who was a former Minister of State under former PresidentJohn Agyekum Kufuor, said there appears to be an unspoken agreement that the reporting and chronicling of our everyday affairs were not serious undertakings and can be left to entertainers and journalists.
She said the academics and intellectuals fancy themselves as dealing only with the “serious” business of the study and history of our affairs.
"You are experts and you know every angle of the history and facts about Africa. You are recognized as such by your colleagues and contemporaries around the world. I wonder why you don’t want to take an active interest in the daily writing and rewriting of our history," she said.
"It is, after all, today’s newspaper and radio headlines that you will be teaching us African Studies in 30 years," Ms Ohene said.
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Founding Vice President, ASAA, said the organisation was committed to providing a space where Africanists could formally collaborate to engage in the important work of reflecting on and proposing concrete responses to the global African condition.
“The work we do as professionals Africanists must impact our communities,” Prof Adomako Ampofo said.
Nana Kobina Nketsia V, The ParamountChief of the Essikado TraditionalArea, said African Studies had been ongoing since the existence of Africa.
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Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoing political crisis in Togo.
"Next door in Togo there has been a major political upheaval ongoing for many weeks now. You wouldn’t know this if you only watched or listened to our television and radio stations or read our newspapers. And they are our next door neighbours," Ms Ohene said at the opening of opening of the Second Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in Accra.
"The African story is, therefore, left largely to be told often by non-Africans and then we complain," she said.
The three-day conference being held under the theme: “African Studies and GlobalPolitics,” is being attended by over 260 participants from across the globe, with 142 of them coming from Africa.
ASAA was established in 2013 during the climax of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, to promote Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora.
The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective, what Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, referred to as studying our societies and experiences in an African-centred way.
Speaking on the topic "African Studies - Writing The DailyHistory", Ms Ohene said she had spent most of her life reporting from or about various parts of Africa.
"Take any newspaper or any FM station or television station and you are likely to get different versions of what you saw with your own two eyes or heard with your ears the previous day," she said.
She said throughout the years, when it comes to the reporting of the African continent, there had always been a feeling that it was portrayed unfairly by the animal called 'the Western media'.
Ms Ohene said: "I have always held the view, even during the time that I worked for the BBC, part of that Western media, that it does not really matter what the foreign media says about Africa. It is far, far more important what Africa says about itself."
She said "I am suggesting that the definitions that we have given ourselves make our participation on the global stage cumbersome".
"It is crowded on the global political stage and if you position yourself to be called to provide the interlude, you can hardly complain when you don’t feature on the main agenda."
Ms Ohene, who was a former Minister of State under former PresidentJohn Agyekum Kufuor, said there appears to be an unspoken agreement that the reporting and chronicling of our everyday affairs were not serious undertakings and can be left to entertainers and journalists.
She said the academics and intellectuals fancy themselves as dealing only with the “serious” business of the study and history of our affairs.
"You are experts and you know every angle of the history and facts about Africa. You are recognized as such by your colleagues and contemporaries around the world. I wonder why you don’t want to take an active interest in the daily writing and rewriting of our history," she said.
"It is, after all, today’s newspaper and radio headlines that you will be teaching us African Studies in 30 years," Ms Ohene said.
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Founding Vice President, ASAA, said the organisation was committed to providing a space where Africanists could formally collaborate to engage in the important work of reflecting on and proposing concrete responses to the global African condition.
“The work we do as professionals Africanists must impact our communities,” Prof Adomako Ampofo said.
Nana Kobina Nketsia V, The ParamountChief of the Essikado TraditionalArea, said African Studies had been ongoing since the existence of Africa.
GNA
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How to Book 2Go Promo Tickets Online by SuperFerry Promo Fare

Ganito ang pag-book at bumili ng ticket sa 2Go Travel. This demo and tutorial is made by Superferry Promo Fare .com website. Read the blog post about online booking if you want to know more details.

published: 30 Sep 2017

Ghana, Togo & Benin Travel Preparation Guide and Tips

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Ghana & Togo the #AlaffiaJourney on How Fair Trade Shea Butter is Made

November 2015, I was extremely fortunate to travel with the Alaffia team and some of the biggest influencers to Ghana and up through Togo, to see the fair trade process of shea butter.
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Welcome to Togo - Tour Guide Kiki Kewou Intro - Nov 2017

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AFRICA TRAVEL VLOG | Summer Vacation to Togo, Ghana & South Africa

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PLACES I VISTED
Town of Yara Kabye, TogoLome, TogoAccra, GhanaCape Coast, GhanaKumasi, GhanaJohannesburg, South AfricaCape Town, South Africa
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Africa for the Africans Tour Preparation Conference CallNov 12, 2017 gives you full clarity on the Journey of a Lifetime tours to Africa. Tour Leader and OrganizerBomani goes into details about all the things you need to know to prepare you for the upcoming Ghana, Togo & Benin Tour Nov 2017 and Ghana Tour May 2018. Listen as we go into details about where to access all of the tour info to be prepared for this incredible pilgrimage to the motherland. We also go in depth on Repatriation, sharing valuable information on opportunities in living, doing business and investing in Ghana. Visit our website for full details at http://africafortheafricans.org.
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Africa for the Africans Tour Preparation Conference CallNov 12, 2017 gives you full clarity on the Journey of a Lifetime tours to Africa. Tour Leader and OrganizerBomani goes into details about all the things you need to know to prepare you for the upcoming Ghana, Togo & Benin Tour Nov 2017 and Ghana Tour May 2018. Listen as we go into details about where to access all of the tour info to be prepared for this incredible pilgrimage to the motherland. We also go in depth on Repatriation, sharing valuable information on opportunities in living, doing business and investing in Ghana. Visit our website for full details at http://africafortheafricans.org.
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Highlights from our Ghana, Togo & BeninRepatriation & Investment Tour Nov 17 – Dec 1, 2017. Brothers and Sisters from the African Diaspora return to their roots to experience the ultimate journey of a lifetime. The journey to the motherland introduces you to a vibrant Africa with a mix of roots, culture, paradise, night life, shopping, networking, business and investment opportunities. Let’s start working more towards empowering and being a part of the growth of Africa. Join us on the next Journey of a Lifetime to Ghana every May and Nov. Visit our website for details on future Africa Tours & Investments. http://www.africafortheafricans.org
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Highlights from our Ghana, Togo & BeninRepatriation & Investment Tour Nov 17 – Dec 1, 2017. Brothers and Sisters from the African Diaspora return to their roots to experience the ultimate journey of a lifetime. The journey to the motherland introduces you to a vibrant Africa with a mix of roots, culture, paradise, night life, shopping, networking, business and investment opportunities. Let’s start working more towards empowering and being a part of the growth of Africa. Join us on the next Journey of a Lifetime to Ghana every May and Nov. Visit our website for details on future Africa Tours & Investments. http://www.africafortheafricans.org
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Togo deals blow to Israel’s Africa quest

Hundreds of thousands of Togolese massed in protest in their country a week after African diplomats gathered at the Sheraton in Pretoria to discuss unity.
Since last Wednesday the streets of Lomé have been pounding with anger, which radiates out of the opposition’s eastern stronghold of Bé. As many as 100 000 have showed the limits to their civic patience over the past week on the palm-lined boulevards of the capital.
Meanwhile, a fortnight ago at the Sheraton hotel some 4 500km away, diplomats from around the continent debated a key event to which Togo’s president, Faure Gnassingbé, had agreed with Israeli PresidentBenjamin Netanyahu: the Africa-Israel Summit, planned to be held in Lomé in six weeks’ time.
At the Pretoria forum, organised by the Johannesburg-based Afro-Middle EastCentre, activists, academics and country representatives weighed solidarity with Palestine against the Israeli occupation with Israel’s bid to enter the new scramble for Africa.
The delegates thrashed out an African position regarding Lomé’s cosiness with Jerusalem, epitomised by the planned summit.
Gnassingbé finds himself in the eye of a long-gathering, powerful storm. In power for 12 years, he’s the beneficiary of a 50-year family rule following his father, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who was president for nearly 40 years.
Against the backdrop of the people’s cries to end the current president’s increasingly repressive control, Lomé this week conceded that it could consider a presidential limit with a constitutional amendment. But that doesn’t seem enough to quell the growing coalition wearing the red, orange and pink of a Free Togo movement. At the very least, it wants a two-term ceiling and a change to a two-round voting system.
Then, as its Parliament met amid these crises this week, Israel simultaneously announced that the Africa-Israel summit in October had been postponed. And it was that news that drew headlines around the world, more so than the days of protests against Gnassingbé’s rule.
From The Washington Post to The Argus, spanning Twitter and all social media, the dominant response was that Lomé had buckled under pressure from Arab countries, some African countries and other parts of the world to cancel the event.
Contributors to the Pretoria gathering, who had applauded South Africa’s decision to shun the summit because of the Israeli occupation, welcomed the announcement. And out of Gaza, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Risheq called it “a victory for humanitarian values and its defenders”. Tel Aviv-based newspaper Haaretz dubbed the cancellation a blow to Netanyahu.
Just three months ago, the Likud leader was saying Israel had “returned to Africa” as he travelled to Liberia for the Economic Community of West AfricanStates summit. That was part of a strategic Africa charm offensive, which included Netanyahu visiting Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia last year.
Through myriad Israeli technology, energy, security and water-related companies and public-private partnerships, Israel has been trying to win itself greater favour on the African continent. It was, therefore, careful to suggest this week that it was Togo’s internal political crisis that led to the decision by Gnassingbé, made in consultation with Netanyahu. This consultation happened despite the summit being due to parade the products of Israeli private, not government, enterprise under the slogan: “Building bridges towards greater shared prosperity”.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson EmmanuelNahshon said it was decided “to put off the … summit to a future, agreed-upon date”, and that “the president [Gnassingbé] stressed that the success of this important event requires significant and complicated preparations”.
But the stakes are high. Israel’s hard sell into Africa is, in part, to try to gain an observer seat at the African Union, which it believes might allow it an easier time on its policies against Palestine at the United Nations.
But the postponement of the Africa-Israel Summit was announced just as the Palestinian Authority prepares to submit 16 resolutions for vote during the UN General Assembly session on September 20, including on the illegal Gaza blockade and the Israeli settlements.
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Fans gather ahead of Togo, Switzerland Group G match

1. Switzerland fans walking past
2. Switzerland fans waiting outside stadium ticket centre
3. SOUNDBITE (German): Switzerland fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "Surely we will get to the last eight. I think it will be 3-1 to Switzerland tonight"
Fan 2: "Swiss will be first in the group and the French will be third."
Fan 1: "I'm sorry they had bad preparations but I think they will play very badly today."
4. Switzerland fans walking away
5. Wide shot of Switzerland fans walking past Togo fans, they call out to each other, Togo fans walk past, pan up to World CupDortmund banner
6. SOUNDBITE (English): Togo fans, Vox Pops:
Fan 1: "We are coming to play to win the game today, there's no doubt about it today."
(Q: "What do you think the score will be?")
"It will be 2-0 for Togo."
(Q:"So you think you'll get far in the competition?")
"Yeah sure, as the France did play yesterday a draw we believe that we are going to win today so that we won the match today. We want to pass the first round."
(Q:"How about the issue with the players and the bonuses?")
"The players they were right to ask what they wanted, this is their job but I believe that they are going to play today."
(Q:"What do you think Togo's appearance in the World Cup means to their people back in Togo?")
"Very, very, very important for people back in Togo. Sport for us is something very important."
Fan 2: "You cannot play for nothing, you need to get something for them."
7. Togo fans
STORYLINE:
Fans of Togo and Switzerland football teams arrived in the western German city of Dortmund on Monday ahead of a Group G encounter that will see Togo attempting to become the second African nation to win in the group phase of this year's football World Cup tournament.
Togo, one of the surprise African qualifiers, are fighting for survival after losing 2-1 to South Korea in its opening match.
Although the lowest ranked team at the World Cup, they have caused as many headlines as some previous champions.
The problems that have accompanied Togo reached a new climax with a threatened boycott over pay by players and an eleventh-hour settlement mediated by FIFA, world football's governing body.
FIFA were forced to intervene on Sunday and convince the Togolese players to travel to Dortmund.
Togo midfielder Thomas Dossevi said that FIFA had underwritten guarantees by the Togolese federation that the players would receive their bonuses ( for qualification to the tournament).
It was the FIFA guarantees, he said, that prompted mistrustful players to accept the deal.
FIFA were forced to act after receiving reports that the players did not want to board a plane from their training base in southern Germany to the match venue in Dortmund, a spokesman for the organisation said.
Swiss CoachOtto Pfister stormed out for three days and returned just hours before the South Korea match to protest the players' repeated absence from training and the federation's inability to settle the pay dispute.
A FIFA spokesman said Togo faced disqualification from the World Cup and further sanctions from FIFA's disciplinary committee if they boycotted the match, which had not happened since the tournament began in 1930.
Togo fans backed their players' stand over the pay dispute burt said they were confident their team would play against Switzerland.
The latest turbulence in the Togolese camp looked set to boost the chances of Switzerland, which reached the World Cup after a 12-year absence and held France to a 0-0 draw in its opening game.
The young squad is looking for a victory to ease its way into the second round.
Swiss fans waiting outside the stadium expressed confidence that their team would win and progress to the next stage of the tournament.
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Why are people protesting in Togo?

Thousands of Togolese take to the streets to demand an end to the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family.
Thousands of Togolese took to the streets on Wednesday in the second phase of a campaign against the 50-year-rule of the Gnassingbe family and demand the immediate resignation of PresidentFaure Gnassingbe.
Mobile access to the internet was blocked on Wednesday by authorities, as was the case in August and September during mass protests that drew tens of thousands of people.
Security forces cracked down on the previous nationwide demonstrations leaving several people dead.
Why are people protesting in Togo?
Protesters want to see a return to the 1992Constitution that allowed only two presidential terms. In addition, they want to have it applied retroactively so as to force out President Faure Gnassingbe.
Gnassingbe, in power since the death of his father in 2005, was re-elected in 2010 and again in 2015, in votes that the opposition denounced for fraud.
Why are these protests happening now?
A 14-party opposition coalition and civil society organisations have called the latest rounds of protests suspecting that President Gnassigbe, who is on his third term in office, will seek re-election in 2020.
In September, President Gnassingbe, in an attempt to appease opponents, tabled a draft bill to reform the constitution and reintroduce a two-term limit.
But opposition leaders are sceptical that this would apply retroactively, meaning the current president might stay until 2030. They have called for his immediate departure.
Where are the protests taking place?
Most protests are centred in the capital, Lome, and the northern city of Sokode.
Until 2017, most opposition against Gnassingbe was concentrated in or near the country's seaside capital.
The anti-government protests have now spread to the rest of the West African country of seven million people.
Has Togo seen protests before?
It is not the first time calls for Gnassingbe to resign have echoed in the streets.
The protests that followed Gnassingbe’s first election victory in 2005 triggered a violent security crackdown in which around 500 people were killed.
Demonstrations also erupted in 2011, 2012 and 2014, when people also asked for electoral reform.
In the latest round of violence that began in August, at least two people were killed, according to officials.
Opposition leaders disputed that number and said at least seven people died during the protests.
In September thousands of people again took to the streets to demand reform.
Security forces cleared barricades erected by demonstrators and fired tear gas at the crowds.
How has the government reacted to the latest protests?
Protests have largely been peaceful, but at least one person was killed and dozens were injured in September in a crackdown in the north of the country, a region previously seen as reliably pro-government.
The government has also limited internet access in the country, preventing demonstrators from organising on social media. Text messages have also been blocked.
Critics have called these moves by Gnassingbe’s government an attempt to supress the protests.
How has the international community reacted to the protests?
The UNSpecial Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on all parties "to preserve peace and security".
"I remain convinced that all parties want to move forward on the reforms ... in order to reach a consensus to respond to the legitimate expectations of the Togolese people," Chambas said in a statement last month.
Tel Aviv postponed indefinitely the Israel-Africa summit that was scheduled for late October in Togo due to rising unrest in the country.
"The decision was linked to the internal situation in Togo. The situation is seen to be unstable, and they [Togo's presidency] asked to postpone," EmmanuelNahshon, spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry told Al Jazeera last month.
Using the Twitter hashtag #TogoEnMarche (Togo on the move) people in and outside of Togo are voicing their discontent with Gnassingbe. The Togolese diaspora has called for marches in several cities around the world, including Montreal, Paris and Washington, DC.
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Accra, Oct. 15, GNA - Ms Elizabeth Ohene, a writer, a distinguish journalist and a communicator, has rebuked African media for their low reportage on the ongoing political crisis in Togo.
"Next door in Togo there has been a major political upheaval ongoing for many weeks now. You wouldn’t know this if you only watched or listened to our television and radio stations or read our newspapers. And they are our next door neighbours," Ms Ohene said at the opening of opening of the Second Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) in Accra.
"The African story is, therefore, left largely to be told often by non-Africans and then we complain," she said.
The three-day conference being held under the theme: “African Studies and GlobalPolitics,” is being attended by over 260 participants from across the globe, with 142 of them coming from Africa.
ASAA was established in 2013 during the climax of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, to promote Africa’s own specific contributions to the advancement of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Africa and the Diaspora.
The ASAA is currently the only multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary professional association on the continent dedicated to the study of Africa from an Africanist perspective, what Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana, referred to as studying our societies and experiences in an African-centred way.
Speaking on the topic "African Studies - Writing The DailyHistory", Ms Ohene said she had spent most of her life reporting from or about various parts of Africa.
"Take any newspaper or any FM station or television station and you are likely to get different versions of what you saw with your own two eyes or heard with your ears the previous day," she said.
She said throughout the years, when it comes to the reporting of the African continent, there had always been a feeling that it was portrayed unfairly by the animal called 'the Western media'.
Ms Ohene said: "I have always held the view, even during the time that I worked for the BBC, part of that Western media, that it does not really matter what the foreign media says about Africa. It is far, far more important what Africa says about itself."
She said "I am suggesting that the definitions that we have given ourselves make our participation on the global stage cumbersome".
"It is crowded on the global political stage and if you position yourself to be called to provide the interlude, you can hardly complain when you don’t feature on the main agenda."
Ms Ohene, who was a former Minister of State under former PresidentJohn Agyekum Kufuor, said there appears to be an unspoken agreement that the reporting and chronicling of our everyday affairs were not serious undertakings and can be left to entertainers and journalists.
She said the academics and intellectuals fancy themselves as dealing only with the “serious” business of the study and history of our affairs.
"You are experts and you know every angle of the history and facts about Africa. You are recognized as such by your colleagues and contemporaries around the world. I wonder why you don’t want to take an active interest in the daily writing and rewriting of our history," she said.
"It is, after all, today’s newspaper and radio headlines that you will be teaching us African Studies in 30 years," Ms Ohene said.
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Founding Vice President, ASAA, said the organisation was committed to providing a space where Africanists could formally collaborate to engage in the important work of reflecting on and proposing concrete responses to the global African condition.
“The work we do as professionals Africanists must impact our communities,” Prof Adomako Ampofo said.
Nana Kobina Nketsia V, The ParamountChief of the Essikado TraditionalArea, said African Studies had been ongoing since the existence of Africa.
GNA
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AFRICA TRAVEL VLOG | Summer Vacation to Togo, Ghana & South Africa

Hey yall, I was FINALLY able to edit my vlog from my summer trip to the motherland. This vlog doesn't even contain all my experiences and journeys because I wasn't always filming, but I hope you enjoy what I was able to capture. If you want a video on travel tips and my overall thoughts on the places I visited, please let me know.
PLACES I VISTED
Town of Yara Kabye, TogoLome, TogoAccra, GhanaCape Coast, GhanaKumasi, GhanaJohannesburg, South AfricaCape Town, South Africa
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Ghana, Togo & Benin Travel Preparation Guide and Tips

Africa for the Africans Tour Preparation Conference CallNov 12, 2017 gives you full clarity on the Journey of a Lifetime tours to Africa. Tour Leader and OrganizerBomani goes into details about all the things you need to know to prepare you for the upcoming Ghana, Togo & Benin Tour Nov 2017 and Ghana Tour May 2018. Listen as we go into details about where to access all of the tour info to be prepared for this incredible pilgrimage to the motherland. We also go in depth on Repatriation, sharing valuable information on opportunities in living, doing business and investing in Ghana. Visit our website for full details at http://africafortheafricans.org.
Join us on the next conference call Sunday December 17, 2017 from 7-8 PM EST for our upcoming Ghana Tours May 2018 and Nov 2017. For more information register and e-mail us at afta2010@msn.com for the full program. For direct questions call ConferenceAdministrator Bomani (404) 931-9429. Conference Call Credentials: Dial 712-770-4010 then Access Code 729120. Conference call info on our website: http://africafortheafricans.org/index.php/conference-calls.
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Highlights from our Ghana, Togo & BeninRepatriation & Investment Tour Nov 17 – Dec 1, 2017. Brothers and Sisters from the African Diaspora return to their roots to experience the ultimate journey of a lifetime. The journey to the motherland introduces you to a vibrant Africa with a mix of roots, culture, paradise, night life, shopping, networking, business and investment opportunities. Let’s start working more towards empowering and being a part of the growth of Africa. Join us on the next Journey of a Lifetime to Ghana every May and Nov. Visit our website for details on future Africa Tours & Investments. http://www.africafortheafricans.org
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